10,941 Quotes About War

Where there is love, there is no war.

Бабушка Шура присела у окна посмотреть на дорогу. На проспект Ильича. В народе называли его Макшоссе.— Что это, Ирочка? Война? Немцы снова напали? Танки, Ирочка. Десять штук? Напали немцы?— Нет, — сухо сказала уставшая Ирочка.Наши танки? Учения?— Нет, — снова сказала дочь. — Не наши. Наших в городе нет.— Ну что ты тогда меня путаешь! — рассердилась бабушка Шура. — Если наших нет, а танки едут по Макшоссе, это значит фашисты. Опять фашисты. Что же это, Ирочка?

Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions based on experience and imagination, the sort of unshowy soldiering that didn’t win medals but wars.

It doesn't matter who started it or what it's really about...war usually ends up sucking most for women. Even when we're not fighting the battles ourselves, we somehow always end up with the lion's share of the suffering.

Gli italiani perdono le partite di calcio come se fossero guerre e perdono le guerre come se fossero partite di calcio.

This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

Where were all heroical parts but in Helteranius? and a man might make a garment for the moon sooner than fit the o'erleaping actions of great Jalcanaius, who now leaveth but his body to bedung that earth that was lately shaken at his terror. I have waded in red blood to the knee; and in this hour, in my old years, the world is become for me a vision only and a mock-show.

The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander